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There are things I’ll give credit for. I suspect the “community notes” feature is overall beneficial (though I haven’t seen it much firsthand because I use a very outdated version of the application, which doesn’t support it.). Also, making the code for the recommendation algorithm publicly readable was very cool, and I appreciate it.
The way that verification was replaced with the current system, was, I think, rather poorly designed. That’s not to say that the critiques of the previous system were illegitimate. But the way the change was done threw the baby out with the bath water. Ideally, the system should work as follows: paying-users and associated features, should be independent of verification. Anyone should be able to pay a one-time (unless they change display name too much) fee to have their account verified, where this verification should be an actual verification, not just “did this person pay money”. (This might have to cost a fair chunk in order to be viable, due to labor costs of verifying, but I think it could still be reasonably cheap..) There could be an option for paying subscribers to have some icon display by their name, like the checkmark does currently, but this should be optional, and should be distinct from the verification icon.
Also, there’s all the stupid stuff, like blocking links to competitors, and seemingly not having a competent rollback system for updates when they break stuff, etc.
The code for the recommendation algorithm WAS NOT made publicly available, but rather just the scaffolding for interacting with the still black box ML model. There was zero informational value there (well there was a few tags that were interesting, including one intended to measure sentiment against musk's tweets specifically) and it looked familiar to anyone who has done ML in python.
Basically it's like he posted the source code for the CRM, but not the database.
I don't hate Elon Musk, and I have a generally positive (but not particularly well-informed) opinion of SpaceX and Tesla (though I'm skeptical of "Boring Company", though I'm also not informed about that one either.).
I'm just of the opinion that he made quite a few errors in running twitter (but also some upsides compared to previous status quo, not all downsides).
But if you need another reason here’s a dead simple one. All that Saudi money invested in Twitter and musk, at least isn’t going somewhere else to fuel more nefarious things.
I think everyone in the (us) could serve to take a breath, and turn things down and notch or two. We all care about our country and want the best things for it. We just disagree about how to get there and I'm willing to de-escalate when I can in hopes that reciprocity will follow and civility can regain a foothold
To quote the film How High:
"A drop in the bucket, sucker!"
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this is a throwaway and will remain so, but before the troubles people were already complaining about twitter being infested with nazis, it's just that then whatever had been done to get rid of them was undone, thus my comment
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